Quotes About Communication

common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly.

now Viola could see the value of sounding chirpy even when you didn't feel like it. You were more likely to get what you wanted, for one thing.

Sometimes," Perry said, "saying nothing can be your strongest weapon.") Juliet, and perhaps Juliet alone, had begun to sense Godfrey's impatience. She had learned to read between the lines. But wasn't that where the most important things were said?

Melanie was Irish, and this made everything she said sound nice even when it wasn't.

If you were to ask me what the book is about (which is the most loathsome question you could ask—why bother to write the thing if you then have to explain it? It is what it is) and if I were forced to answer, I would say, "It's about things.

You can't make people listen to you. People only hear what they want to hear.

Boys do tell you how they really feel. I think you just have to be in the right place at the right time or maybe be the right person

Finally Doug broke the stalemate and looked at Megan. Thanks a lot, he said sarcastically. Then he yanked off his plastic gloves, tossed them at her feet, and stormed away. Finn let out a sigh as he gazed after his brother. You know, my parents really should have stopped with me.

Leanne, would you kindly remove your nose from my ass? It's starting to chafe. - Noelle

She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly.

But she laughed and looked at him with eyes that at once gave him courage to wait and made it torture to wait.

I don't want to part in any ill-humor. But can't you understand? I've grown used to seeing you, to having you with me all the time, and your action seems unfriendly, even unkind. You don't even offer an excuse for it. Why, I was planning to be together.

He thought it very discouraging that his wife, who was the sole object of his existence, evinced so little interest in things which concerned him, and valued so little his conversation.

Don't part from me in any ill humor. I never knew you to be out of patience with me before.

Ah! si tu savais Ce que tes yeux me disent

All words at all times, true or false, whispered or shouted, are clues to the workings of the human heart.

It occurred to her that nobody really knew what anybody else was upset about, and that seemed like a terrible thing.

Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?

A great reader makes a great writer

It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.

Truly, I did not intend to harm you, he said. That was never my intention.

Hyperbole is sometimes necessary to get at the truth. (It seems odd, doesn't it, that we have to lie to tell the truth better?)

You know, my eyes ain't too good at all. I can't see nothing but the general shape of things, so I got to rely on my heart. Why don't you go on and tell me everything about yourself, so as I can see you with my heart.

I ask you, why is it so hard to stay away from the euphemisms? They creep in, always, and attempt to make the difficult things more pleasing.